Peggy's Back

Peggy Noonan is back from her leave-of-absence from writing for Opinionjournal.com to work in the GOP campaign.

I saw her on TV (FOX) last night and she gave us a preview of her online post-election piece. It's worth savoring.

As we get more analysis of the 2004 vote, I think we're going to find that the game wasn't as close as the score indicated. Not only did Bush maintain his red-state/blue-state support in the south and flyover country, the map of counties is even "Bushier" (redder) than 2000.

Factor out the overt bias of the media - to which their members attributed 15 percentage points to Kerry, the egregious anti-Bush propaganda of Michael Moore and his ill ilk, and the last-minute-but-18-month-old "Plastiquegate", and the Bush win was Huge.

Factor in the GOP gains in both houses of congress, the strong message sent to the Obstructionista Dembots™ in Congress via Daschle's ignominious ouster, and you might wonder if Nancy Lugosi Pelosi's gonna keep her lofty House Minionity Leader post. And how long do you think Terry "0-for-Ever" McAwful will remain Lord of the Dembots™ with Hellary in the 2008 wings?

Huge.

Peggy also pays tribute to the pajamahadin, though not by that name, in her assessment of the biggest loser...

Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America. Some day, when America is hit again, and lines go down, and media are hard to get, these bloggers and site runners and independent Internetters of all sorts will find a way to file, and get their word out, and it will be part of the saving of our country.

I'm savorin'.

Comments

[rockynoggin]

I heard Daniel Schorr editorializing on NPR yesterday afternoon - he was up in arms about the "mandate" and said "maybe you can find a mandate in all those angry votes. I can't."

Jeezum, this guys are bitter, bitter, bitter.

[CC]

1. Afafat is brain dead. Hurrah!

2. John Edwards' disgusting wife Elizabeth has breast cancer. Though I'm not happy about anyone suffering from this disease, I find it almost comedically ironic that someone who is partly responsible for the extreme costs of my health insurance will be reaping what he's sown.

3. Four more years of hell. Scumbags. Idiots. Let them go naked.

[rockynoggin]

2. John Edwards' disgusting wife Elizabeth has breast cancer.

Dang CC - that's just harsh. You do bring up a good point - how hard is it for a trial lawyer to find a doctor? I mean, is Elizabeth's primary care provider just a little edgy about making the wrong decision in her treatment?